While preparing for property development, archaeologists happened upon an ancient Roman road right beneath one of Manchester's busiest streets that could date as far back as the first century C.E.

Amidst the Crisis of the Third Century, Emperor Aurelian helped reunite a fractured Rome on the verge of collapse, won numerous victories on the battlefield, and built the astonishing Aurelian Walls.

PhD student Victor Beccari was studying reptile fossils at London's Natural History Museum when he saw something that looked oddly familiar: a specimen very similar to one he'd seen at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

The face was carved into a wooden beam around 967 C.E. and was likely part of a medieval fortress that once stood on an island in the middle of Poland's Lake Lednica.

Scientists aren't able to determine which species of dinosaur the 67-million-year-old vertebra belonged to, but it was likely a small herbivore.

His mother and adult brother, both struggling with drug addiction, kept him out of school and away from other children. The boy was largely left to bond only with the dogs and communicated by barking.

The tombstone was discovered in the center of Gdańsk, Poland, and archaeologists believe it dates back to at least the 14th century.

These 22 colossal stone blocks, some weighing as much as 80 tons, include parts of everything from the Lighthouse of Alexandria's threshold to its base to its door.

Though it initially looked like a piece of rebar, Andrzej Korpikiewicz cleaned off the leeches, snails, and shrimp clinging to it — and revealed a sword.

These bowls, plates, and pots still had their designs intact, thanks to a one-of-a-kind technique in which they were coated in a protective layer of raw clay.